SESSION V | 259 LANGHAM: So now do you plow a rocky mountain? We went to the Spanish with another problem, This was a rather big crisis and - the Spanish replied, "Well, as we recall, plowing was your idea, so plow!'' [Laughter] [t was finally agreed in this case that they would elevate their standards a bit and we would resurvey the whole area and if we found areas contaminated above this newly agreed limit we would actually work it with pick and shove! and stir it around, the idea being to get the plutonium beneath the ground so that when it blew it wouldn't become an inhalation hazard by resuspersion, and some of there hillsides were pick-and- shovei- worked into the soil instead of being plowed. They were reasonable people. Now, this doesn't mean they don't drive a hard bargain, They took the recommendations that were first proposed and essentially divided them by two and made us go to one-half the level we had proposed. That's al) right. Lf you're writing manuals—and i've written a few—you decide on what the proper standards of cleanup are. But it comes aaa bit of a shock to find out that if it's the other fellow's backyard that you've dirtied up, maybe he has sometiing to say about the standards, You dan't come in and teil him you'll clea it up ac- cording to your standards, You clean i: up according tu his, and these people drove a hard bargain, but they were never .heless reasonable. [had a great respect for the Spanish AEC group. they have some highly competent peopie. I think The whole Spanish AEC isn't ag big ae the group Dr, Dunham used to have tn the Division of Biology and Medicine alone, [ mean that's their whole AEC and yet in it they have a few highly competent people, WOLFE: Wouldn't it have been much cheaper to haul soil in there and cover it over than to carry it out? LANGHAM: Of course. It was carried out and then fresh soil replaced ontop of it. I think it's just as well, right around the crater areas, that that was removed. At least you know it's no longer there. They let us plow under, you see, a lot of it and they asked us to give them a soil followup program because we had plowed 5 me- thing with a 24, 000-year half-life into their soil and I'm sure they would have objected if you had just burted it there, too, They felt happier about having it removed, and so did I, where the levels were high. UPTON: Will there be a followup of some kind?